Understanding different cultural ecosystem services: An exploration of rural landscape preferences based on geographic and social media data.

Rural landscapes offer a variety of cultural ecosystem services (CESs). However, the relationship between rural landscape characteristics and different CESs is still poorly understood. Therefore, this study explored the rural areas of Huzhou city, China, as a case study to assess the main rural landscape characteristics of different CESs based on public preferences.

Assessing and mapping cultural ecosystem services supply, demand and flow of farmlands in the Hangzhou metropolitan area, China.

Despite research on monitoring and mapping cultural ecosystem services (CESs) increasing exponentially in recent years, our knowledge of the CESs of farmlands is still inadequate, particularly in megacities. Analyzing the CESs of farmlands is a daunting challenge partly due to the lack of appropriate frameworks, and partly because of paucity of information on farmland. In this paper, the maximum entropy (Maxent) model along with agricultural big data were combined to measure and map CESs supply with respect to aesthetics and recreation, within farmlands in the Hangzhou metropolitan area of China between 2010 and 2016.

Spatiotemporal Variability of Soil Nitrogen in Relation to Environmental Factors in a Low Hilly Region of Southeastern China.

Soil total nitrogen (TN) plays a major role in agriculture, geochemical cycles and terrestrial ecosystem functions. Knowledge regarding the TN distribution is crucial for the sustainable use of soil resources. This paper therefore aims to characterize the spatiotemporal distribution of soil TN and improve the current understanding of how various factors influence changes in TN.

Carbon emissions induced by land-use and land-cover change from 1970 to 2010 in Zhejiang, China.

Land-use and land-cover change (LUCC) is a crucial factor affecting carbon emissions. Zhejiang Province has witnessed unprecedented LUCC concomitant with rapid urbanization from 1970 to 2010. In this study, remote sensing, geographic information system (GIS) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) method were combined to quantify changes in both vegetation carbon storage and soil organic carbon (SOC) storage resulting from LUCC during 1970-1990 and 1990-2010.